A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium, Octon on Friday, February 5, for Mr Gordon Siddle of Driffield who died peacefully in Scarborough Hospital. He was aged 85 years.
The service was conducted by the Rev Jacki Tonkin and the organist was Mr Steven Westaway.
Gordon was born in Hull on March 21, 1930. He attended school in Hull. In 1944 at the age of 14 he started work as an apprentice joiner at Purdens Joiners in Williamson Street in Hull. Part of his apprenticeship was spent at Annison’s Funeral Directors making coffins.
He spent his National Service first training at RAF Kirkham near Blackpool and he was based in Goxhill in North Lincolnshire during 1951 and 1952.
He met his wife to be Audrey at a dance and they married at St Martin’s Church on Anlaby Road on March 12, 1955 and they had been married for over 60 happy years.
They went on to have two sons Martin and Duncan and lived in Lake Drive and Lake View in Hull and the friends they made there remained friends for life.
Martin and Duncan were very involved in the Portabello Scouts and both Audrey and Gordon were on the parents committee, giving valuable support at scouting events and helping with the maintenance of the Scout Headquarters in the Broadway.
Gordon spent 35 years of his working life as a joiner and then a joiner/setter out at Hollis Brothers, Timber Importers on Hedon Road, Hull. After the closure of Hollis Brothers he moved to East Yorkshire Glazing and finally to the Hull City Council Works Department.
After 21 happy years in Lake View, the family moved to Barra Close on the outskirts of Sutton. In 2000 Gordon and Audrey moved to live in Driffield.
Caravanning was a great love and a major part of Gordon and Audrey’s lives, they travelled all over including Spain, driving through France and in more recent times favourite sites closer to home were Brixham, Latham and Slingsby with close friends.
He enjoyed walking with walking groups and was a member of the Hutton Cranswick Bowls Club, winning many trophies. He had always owned motorbikes and only gave up riding one at the age of 78.
He also enjoyed DIY, making garden benches, bird tables, cabinets, fitted wardrobes to name but a few.
Gordon was a member of the Hull Operatic Society, Hull Savoyards and the Driffield Male Voice Choir where he sang as a tenor and the Barbers Shop Singers.
He was very family orientated and loved his family, especially his grandchildren Thomas, Amy, James and Alice and his great grandson Albie Gordon and he will be greatly missed.
Family mourners: Mrs Audrey Siddle, Duncan and Angela Siddle, Martin and Diane Siddle, Thomas and Grace Siddle, James Siddle, Alice Siddle, Gareth Jones. Amy and Tom Jagger (unable to attend due to imminent birth of baby.
Others present: Frank Pickering, Eric and Rene Weston, Steve Poole, Richard Pollard, David Warnes, Michael Withield, Stuart and Catherine Carlisle, David and Jane Hyde rep Driffield Barbers Shop Singers, Dan and Joan Lehain, Dave Thacker.
John Henderson, Maurice Barber, Patrick Grimes, Tony and Joan Straker rep Geoff and Barbara Hughes and Ann and Jim Sanderson (Barber Shop), Geoff Simpson rep Linda, Fez and Gill Ullyott, Rex Brunsden, Mike Hotham, Mr and Mrs D Kent, David Buck, Stuart Clark rep Janet Farnsworth, (All Male Voice Choir), Mrs Joan Tice rep Hutton Cranswick Bowls Club, Mr and Mrs M S Lonsdale rep Hutton Cranswick Bowls Club, Karen and Chris Beaton, Jan and Tony Gowforth, Ann Knaggs.
Jill Ainsworth rep Driffield Disabled Swimming, Marion and George Harris, Janet Lewis rep John Lewis (MVC), Bruce and Judy Allison, Ted Hutchinson rep Anne, Beverley and Frank Pickering, Christine Pollard, Dorothy and Peter Dix, Mary Charlesworth rep H C Bowls Club, Shirley Duffin rep H C Bowls Club, Val Barker rep HC Bowls Club, Patricia Bryson rep H CBowls Club, Pauline Barber, Ray and Rosemary Sygrove, Brian and Jackie Freeman, Eric and Pam Gibson.
Joyce Wright rep Judy Wilson, Joan Hall rep Mr and Mrs K Benfell, Colin Black, Barbara Jenkin, Mildred Galtry rep June Bennett, Audrey Oxtoby, Don Oxtoby, Liz Wiles, Leon Hardman, Trevor and Christine Stirk (cousins), Doug and Tina Stirk (cousins), Michael Adamson, Stuart Nelson, Clive Hill, Chris and Fenella Pindar, Susan and Graham Pindar, Don and Margaret Macer, Carol and George Buxton.
Mr P Bowman, Joe Bowman, Graham andMildred Winship, Elaine Hampton, Stuart and Pat Tomlinson, Marion Shaw, Ron and Ann Wilson, Ann and John Dunnington rep Angela and Charles Wiles, Chris Gosley rep Teresa, Georgina Dean, Tony Fouracre rep Joan Hardy, Paul Richardson, Norman Ellis, Sally Hobson, Pat Hornby, Doreen and Wendy rep The Limes, Mr E Woodford, Maureen Herschell, Carol and Brian Waton, Mark Holtby, Lionel and Josephine Baron, Billy Waites rep Sue Waites, John Walster, David and Margaret Trow, Urwin Danby rep H C Bowls Club, Beryl Porter, Richard Hughes, Bill and Muriel Duffill, Stuart Bell, Roger Kirby, June Garnett, Holly Duffin rep The Limes.